Integrate Your POS System With a Website

 

A POS system (Point Of Sales) is a program that allows to control and manage the commercial and financial tasks, such as inventory, creation and printing of receipts, card payment, credit or debit, among others. This technological mechanism is used in all types of companies of all sizes to optimize operations and facilitate work. Want to quote a Woo Commerce POS System for your company?

 

POS systems began to be implemented in the world for decades. But these have changed significantly over time and have gradually been transformed into more sophisticated and faster systems, with more functionality, and even integrated into a set of programs that unify all areas of the company in a single platform, which we will talk about later.

 

 

 The traditional POS system

 

We call the traditional POS system the point of sale management device that works on a single network of computers located in a particular sale point. In other words, each store is independent of the others, and it is not possible to access, for example, the information of other branches or headquarters.

 

To acquire a traditional POS system, it was necessary to pay for a license to train in the program's use, maintenance and integration of new hardware. At the time, these traditional POS systems represented important progress in the business world. Thanks to accelerated technological advancement, traditional POS systems were exceeded in their capacity, so new software was created to allow efficient invoicing and include other tasks. Within the operation, just as POS systems do in the cloud.

 

 

Improve your customer service with a Woo Commerce POS. 

 

 

In the process of digital transformation or digitization, the process of converting physical traditional businesses into online stores combining both modalities have a lot of weight.

 

Woo Commerce with Word Press has helped a lot in the digital transformation processes. Currently, it is the most used CMS for the creation and management of online stores and eCommerce.

 

 

 

How to install and configure a POS in a Woo Commerce online store with

Word Press?

 

 

There are several cases in which having the POS or POS for physical sale and the online store on the same the platform can help us, especially when obtaining reports/reports and managing stocks. 

 

To implement a POS or POS in Woo Commerce, we need a plugin that we can install in our Word Press with Woo Commerce installed.

 

There are many plugins to configure a POS or POS in Woo Commerce. After buying the plugin and installing it in our Word Press + Woo Commerce, we will be able to access its functionalities and configuration. The screen that you can see in the previous image is the main screen of the POS and from where you can sell physical products in your physical store, generating tickets, invoices and serving customers face to face. 

 

 

POS or POS for Woo Commerce: Recommended?

 

 

In this area, there is a lot of debate since Woo Commerce is a Word Press plugin that consumes a lot of resources. If we add a POS or POS developed with AJAX that uses the Word Press Heartbeat API, we can create a monster that devours resources.

 

Is this true? Yes, but this does not mean that it is not advisable to use a POS or POS on a Woo Commerce to charge and sell in a physical store that has an online store, since it is an efficient way to keep the stock always synchronized and working.

 

The only thing we must be clear about is that, if in addition to Woo Commerce + POS we combine it with social functionalities with Buddy Press, then it may be that the consumption of resources per request are so high that we have WPO problems. We must always make combinations of plugins based on feasibility and taking into account the consumption of resources.